Bill Jenkins (bishop)

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William A. Jenkins Sr.
Bishop Coadjutor of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic
Church Anglican Church in North America
Reformed Episcopal Church
Diocese REC Northeast and Mid-Atlantic
Orders
Ordination1983 (diaconate)
1985 (presbyterate)
ConsecrationApril 29, 2023
by  Foley Beach, Ray Sutton
Personal details
Born1963 (age 60–61)
Havre de Grace, Maryland

William Alan "Bill" Jenkins Sr. (born 1963) is an American Anglican bishop. He is currently bishop coadjutor of the Reformed Episcopal Church's Diocese of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic (NEMA). He was previously canon to the ordinary in the diocese.

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Early life, education, and family

Jenkins was born in Havre de Grace, Maryland, in 1963, and was raised in a congregation of the fundamentalist Evangelical Methodist Church of America. He received a bachelor's degree in religious education and pastoral studies from Manahath School of Theology, the denominational school in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, and studied for a master's degree in religious education at Manahath. According to Jenkins, his thesis was rejected because he had moved away from the school's fundamentalist and premillennial theology. Before he could complete his degree, the institution closed and relocated to Virginia as Breckbill Bible College. Jenkins is pursuing continuing theological studies at Reformed Episcopal Seminary. [1]

While studying at Manahath, he met his future wife, Kimberley. They married in August 1982 and have six biological children, 14 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. They also fostered five children. [1]

Ministry career

In 1983, Jenkins was ordained to the diaconate in the Methodist tradition, and in 1985 he was ordained as a presbyter. He served from 1985 to 1986 as the pastor of an Evangelical Methodist Church in Tennessee and from 1986 to 1988 as the pastor of a non-denominational Bible church in Cambridge, Maryland. Both charges ended unhappily, Jenkins has said, and he questioned the call to ordained ministry and worked in the business sector. [1] He also moved away from Methodism to Reformed theology, [1] serving in the Presbyterian Church in America briefly before being received into the Reformed Episcopal Church in 1990. [2]

Faith REC in Armistead Gardens, Baltimore, which Jenkins has pastored since 1991. Faith-church-5.jpg
Faith REC in Armistead Gardens, Baltimore, which Jenkins has pastored since 1991.

Jenkins' first call in the REC was as rector of Emmanuel REC in Baltimore's Mayfield neighborhood. Less than a year later, he was asked to take over an additional role as rector of the struggling Faith REC in the nearby Armistead Gardens neighborhood. At the time, Faith's congregation had dwindled to 12 and Jenkins' original plan was to merge Faith with Emmanuel. [1] Instead, Faith grew to self-sustaining size and Emmanuel was merged into it in 2006. [3] Jenkins remains rector of Faith and has also held numerous diocesan roles, including canon to the ordinary starting in 2014 under Bishops David L. Hicks and Chuck Gillin. [1] [4]

On November 3, 2022, the NEMA synod elected Jenkins its next bishop coadjutor. [5] ACNA consent was granted on January 11, 2023, [4] and he was consecrated on April 29, 2023, at Bishop Cummins Reformed Episcopal Church. [6] Jenkins will serve alongside Gillin with right of succession upon the latter's retirement, scheduled for 2025. [7]

Financial writing

Jenkins was also a writer and editor for publications of Agora Financial, including serving from 2008 to 2010 as editor of Agora's FX Options Trading Masters product. During these years, he also wrote for Agora publications the Daily Reckoning and Money Morning. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Jenkins, Bill. "CV of the Rev. Canon William A. Jenkins, Sr" (PDF). Diocese of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. Archived from the original on 17 November 2022. Retrieved 5 December 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ↑ "REPORT OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA SYNOD" (PDF). Journal of the Proceedings of the Forty-Seventh General Council of the Reformed Episcopal Church: 145. 1993. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  3. ↑ "REPORT of the STANDING COMMITTEE of the DIOCESE OF THE NORTHEAST & MID-ATLANTIC" (PDF). Journal of the Proceedings of the Fifty-Second General Council of the Reformed Episcopal Church: 82. 2008. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  4. 1 2 "COLLEGE OF BISHOPS SEATS TWO BISHOPS, CONSENTS TO TWO BISHOPS-ELECT". Anglican Church in North America. January 12, 2023. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
  5. ↑ "NEMA News Update". Diocese of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. November 11, 2022. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  6. ↑ "STATISTICAL REPORT OF THE PRESIDING BISHOP TO THE 57TH GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE REFORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH" (PDF). p. 1F-3. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
  7. ↑ "NEMA News Update". Diocese of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. October 26, 2022. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
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